Secuity Leftovers

• Security updates for Wednesday

  Security updates have been issued by Debian (spip and webkit2gtk), Fedora (kernel and libexif), openSUSE (chromium and rclone), Slackware (mutt), SUSE (kernel, mariadb, and slurm), and Ubuntu (igraph).

• Top Tips to Protect Your Linux System

  Linux-based operating systems have a reputation for their high-security level. That's one of the reasons why the market share for Linux has been growing. The most commonly used operating systems such as Windows are often affected by targeted attacks in the form of ransomware infections, spyware, as well as worms, and malware. As a result, many personal, as well as enterprise users, are turning to Linux-based operating systems such as the Ubuntu-based Linux OS for security purposes. While Linux based systems are not targeted as frequently as other popular operating systems, they are not completely foolproof. There are plenty of risks and vulnerabilities for all types of Linux devices which put your privacy as well as your identity at risk.

• Building a healthy relationship between security and sysadmins | Enable Sysadmin

  Learn how to bridge the gap between operations/development and security.

today's howtos

• How to get Linux kernel 5.8 and 5.9 in Debian 10

  Debian 10 sits at Linux kernel 4.19. While this kernel version isn’t exactly the oldest release ever, it’s undoubtedly out of date. However, it is possible to install more modern versions of the kernel.

• How to install Reaper on a Chromebook

  Today we are looking at how to install Reaper on a Chromebook. Please follow the video/audio guide as a tutorial where we explain the process step by step and use the commands below. Reaper is a very powerful tool for audio editing, but it is difficult to learn, so please use their startup guide. You can also use it as a voice-changer, for discord, etc.

• How to install Lyrebird on Linux Mint 20 - a Voice Changer for Discord - YouTube

  In this video, we are looking at how to install Lyrebird on Linux Mint 20, which is a voice changer for Discord.

• Oracle VirtualBox – how to clone virtual machine terminal bash command line – how to tidy up snapshots and consolidate free disk space

• How to Install and Use Thonny Python IDE on Linux

  Thonny is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) for Python beginners. It is created with Python and released under MIT License. It is cross-platform and can run in Linux, macOS, Windows.

• How to easily install git on Linux | 2021 - LinuxH2O

  This article is a quick guide on how to install git on different Linux distributions like Ubuntu, Fedora, Arch, etc. Git is an open-source, cross-platform version control system. It is used to track and maintain changes for a set of files. The tool is mainly popular with programmers for their projects. However, the tool can also be used for any sort of scenario that requires changes to files from time to time. Git was developed by Linus Torvalds in 2005 to manage the Linux kernel development.

Videos/Audiocasts/Shows: Unfettered Freedom, Coder Radio, TLLTS, FLOSS Weekly

• Unfettered Freedom Ep. 12 - Linus on M1 Mac, Snaps 2020, Funtoo, Sabayon, Fedora Pipewire, Systemd

  Unfettered Freedom is a video podcast that focuses on news and topics about GNU/Linux, free software and open source software.

• Smoked Laptops | Coder Radio 389

  Mike buys a laptop live on air while Chris worries about the turkey.

• The Linux Link Tech Show Episode 882

  thanksgiving, ardor, odin, ready player two

• FLOSS Weekly 606: The Future of Stuff - Digital Ownership and Rights

  In our conversation about The Future of Stuff with its author Vinay Gupta, we discuss the founding role of Free Software in the digital world. We'll also talk about the need to list and protect human rights that were barely imaginable in the old physical world—and the radical ways we might make that happen. Vinay is the founder of Mattereum, a London-based fintech company using legally-enforceable smart contracts to enable the sale, lease, and transfer of physical property and other legal rights. He is a technologist and policy analyst interested in how specific technologies can close or create new avenues for decision-makers. This interest has taken him through cryptography, energy policy, defense, security, resilience, and disaster management arenas. He is perhaps best known for his work on the Hexayurt Project, a public domain disaster relief shelter designed to be built from commonly-available materials, and Ethereum, a distributed network designed to handle smart contracts.